Hanover Street is a 1979 American-British romantic war film written and directed by Peter Hyams, and starring Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down and Christopher Plummer.

During the next few missions, Halloran orders Cimino to drop the bombs early, as he is scared of death because he now has "a reason to live", much to the anger and disappointment of his co-pilot Hyer.

Weeks later, Halloran hears something odd in the engine before take-off and turns back, forcing another pilot, Patman, to go in his place.

At the last moment, Paul Sellinger wearing a SS officer's uniform takes the place of the agent, and himself joins the mission.

After Sellinger injures his ankle, Halloran agrees to help him with his mission to infiltrate the Gestapo headquarters in Lyon, posing as an SS officer and photograph an important document that lists the German double agents in British intelligence.

Sellinger is able to photograph the documents before alarm is raised when Halloran makes the incorrect response to a question in German, but the pair manage to escape back to the farm after a lengthy motorcycle chase.

However, the farmer reports them to the Germans who then surround the barn, but they successfully escape again when they are assisted by the French Resistance, though Sellinger is badly injured.

[3] Kristofferson was intrigued by the aerial sequences he had read in the script, as he had served as a helicopter pilot with the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army for five years.

[12] The B-25 Mitchell bomber was featured prominently in Hanover Street, although the aircraft was a rare sight in England during World War II, except in squadrons allocated to the Royal Air Force's 2nd Tactical Air Force on strikes into occupied France in company with the de Havilland Mosquito prior to, and after, D-Day.

Vincent Canby referred to that fame in his review: Every now and then a film comes along of such painstaking, overripe foolishness that it breaks through the garbage barrier to become one of those rare movies you rush to see for laughs.

What Peter Hyams has achieved with Hanover Street, his new film about a wartime romance set in the London of 1943, is a movie that is almost as funny as Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily?

which, if you remember, was a straight-faced Japanese spy picture that Woody took over and dubbed with a hilariously knuckle-brained English language soundtrack.

It also notes: "Down again distinguishes herself in a role that doesn't seem up to her standards, while Ford back in the pilot's seat again projects an earnest, if dull, presence.

"[7] Film reviewer Leonard Maltin had a similar critique, calling Hanover Street, "slick, but contrived and unconvincing.